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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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